calinet6

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by calinet6 12y ago
The best and most concise way I've found to explain this is a systems focus. We aim to focus on systems, because it is the most efficient way to work. By using good methods, designing complex systems well, and spending adequate time de
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This is the point, yes.
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by calinet6 12y ago
The best way I've heard this described is this: Engineering has a well-defined constant you're always building against: gravity. In software, you choose your gravity, and it changes all the time. Sometimes there are twelve graviti
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by calinet6 12y ago
The factory analogy is extremely apt. As in a factory, Quality in software is a result of a complex myriad of factors, but it reduces to some simple concepts: an understanding of psychology, a deep understanding of statistics, knowledge and
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by calinet6 12y ago
There are other practices that surely come into play as well—you don't achieve quality simply by this "cycle of goodness." The Japanese after WWII took Deming's quality concepts—specifically that quality is the product o
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Yes, nothing new here. "This technology contains trade offs and is complex at times." Oh, you don't say?
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by calinet6 12y ago
UX designer here. It's way overhyped. The concepts behind it are great (using good motion design, giving proper feedback, showing clear affordances for actions, and lots of other good stuff), but that does not mean that everything has
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by calinet6 12y ago
You're lucky. In many places, there are no alternatives to Comcast. I've asked this out in the open before and always got blank stares and crazy looks, but how hard/expensive would it be to start your own neighborhood ISP and
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by calinet6 12y ago
Even though it might be difficult, it is some extremely useful and accurate advice. The overarching point is that you need to focus on what's truly important. This does not mean you need to be rude or outright say "no" in a b
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If you keep this point of view, then no one will do their duty as a citizen. If you take a systemic stance on improving the problem, then you have a chance at improving the rate at which people do their duty as citizens. Your choice.
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A great deal.
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This page, content-wise, doesn't appear to have a clear message. EFF -- if you're listening -- it would be great to stake a very clear position on this bill at the very top of your statement. Something like "We urge you to su
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by calinet6 12y ago
I don't believe it's easily misunderstood; I think people just don't know how or why to create a quality implementation based on an original. The spec is actually remarkable in the level of depth it goes to teach you not only
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It's a great question. Just the idea of a worldwide service brings up hundreds of legal jurisdictions and possible issues. And the limited bandwidth of the satellites may mean that equal service treatment may not be ideal, even if awes
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But you're getting that bandwidth in Africa, so honestly that's not bad. Not really a fair and equal comparison...
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by calinet6 12y ago
Was in Senegal a few years ago, frequently bought 100MB for 5,000CFA (about $10). At least that's what I remember. Is Orange just cheaper or is that about right?
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by calinet6 12y ago
I don't much care about myself being wrong. I care that the conclusions of the type of black and white rhetoric you pursue are the very same that are driving society into ever more harmful separation, for ever less logical reasons, all
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"We" are not here not agreeing with it. You are here not agreeing with it, and clearly another group of people agrees with it quite strongly. I agree it could be clearer, but it does not follow that a point that is not clearly mad
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by calinet6 12y ago
We have turned humans, largely, into much more rational beings than they were in the past. Education and progress does do that, most clearly. There is always human nature, but in the most educated societies, you see a completely different
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by calinet6 12y ago
It turns out what you say is not true in reality, but it persists as the myth of individualism in the corporate workforce. It is simply false; it doesn't happen. When you align the incentives, uncomplicate rewards, clearly guide people
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In a complex system, productivity is often paradoxical. One realization or idea at the fringes of the random walk of progress can be worth the work of hundreds of millions of people on the known status quo. We need people exploring on the o
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by calinet6 12y ago
An extremely common misconception. Human nature does not mean that our behavior is permanent, set in stone, fixed. Our biological bugs are not our humanity, nor are our biological advantages. We are quite greater than our biology, and we&#x
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by calinet6 12y ago
Just remove the individual metric. We know they don't work. Incentivize the entire company for the success of the company. Pay people fairly in an uncomplicated way. Align all the incentives and don't reward anything that is not d
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by calinet6 12y ago
You're optimizing the wrong thing if you're looking outside of the human mind. Change the behavior surrounding our desires and happiness and you solve many of these problems. You might say changing the way our minds work is very d
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by calinet6 12y ago
This I agree with completely, but you must recognize the need for a stepping stone when speaking to people who are otherwise totally ignorant of Zen, and also the fact that with this set of ideas, surely it is not a maximization effort: eve
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It highlights the fact that it actually takes a lot of work to do all of these details and get the UI right, and if you miss one or two, it really doesn't hold up. Something we should all take to heart. Not many design frameworks have
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Yeah, let's not consider every copycat that comes along a valid and complete implementation of good UI guidelines... This one surely is not.
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That's one of the success marks of MD I think; it retracts a bit from total flatness and says, ok, even though this is on a screen and will appear flat, how can we give subtle cues that it's actually a thing (material) and you can
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I mean this in the most respectful way possible, but, your concrete flaws are that you believe it's just designed for the sake of change, it animates too much, and that a font is too small in one place? For what it's worth, the un
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If you're attempting to find a productive rhetorical truth in a piece about shedding productivity as a focus, you're missing the point. In fact, you're arguing that she should 1) be able to quantify happiness, 2) consider lif

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